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Fight Club Masculinity

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Both the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, and fight club touch on the idea, and importance of masculinity. However, in think that they have very different views on the topic, and seem to show to significance of masculinity in different ways. The two novels were written in 2 completely different cultures, and so the techniques used to show the significance of masculinity vary a lot. A sailor who fell from grace with the sea was written in japan, which at the time, and still today, had a very unique set of values and opinions. On the other hand, fight club was written in America, the cultural opposite in some respects, to Japan. the main theme within fight club, is masculinity, and how society responds to it. The first passage from the book I have chosen to look at is on page 17, …show more content…

And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? … “What you end up doing,” the mechanic says, “is you spend your life searching for a father and God.” In this example, I think that God is a symbol of masculinity, and another father figure. A boys dad is often seen as a role model, and an example of what a man should be; and when a boy is without a dad and without God,they don't have an example of manhood, and so spend their life searching for it. it is also a good point. to point out that it is a mechanic that delivers this speech, a profession that has a very dominant, male stereotype, and is classified as a manly job. the book never actually gives a definition for masculinity. What it shows, is a notion that masculinity is a unique underground society, similar to cult-like status. and that men should look for these underground societies, like fight club and the testicular cancer group, in order to find out what it is to be a

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